{"id":2494,"date":"2012-10-15T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:28","slug":"overloading-in-two-headed-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/10\/overloading-in-two-headed-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Overloading in Two Headed Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overload does weird things with 2HG. Some of you at the prerelease may have noticed that. See, all of the Overload spells that you aim at other people&#8217;s stuff work on everything of that sort you don&#8217;t control, if Overloaded. In a normal 2 man game, or a free-for-all, that means it hits your opponents&#8217; stuff, and that&#8217;s just dandy. But in a Two-Headed Giant game, things go bad. <\/p>\n<p>Overloading a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Mizzium+Mortars&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Mizzium Mortars<\/a> doesn&#8217;t make it hit only creatures your opponents control. It hits everything that YOU do not control. Your teammate, no matter how hard he tries, will never be &#8216;you&#8217;. So your Mortars will still blow out his creatures, just like your <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Cyclonic+Rift&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Cyclonic Rift<\/a> will bounce his stuff, and your <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Blustersquall&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Blustersquall<\/a> will tap his stuff. Likewise, your <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Teleportal&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Teleportal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Mizzium+Skin&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Mizzium Skin<\/a> won&#8217;t be very helpful to your teammate&#8217;s creatures. So be aware of that before you go getting overzealous with your overloading. Or, you know, don&#8217;t. Subtlety is for us Azorius law-slingers, not the Izzet.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by<br \/>\nTrevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overload does weird things with 2HG. Some of you at the prerelease may have noticed that. See, all of the Overload spells that you aim at other people&#8217;s stuff work on everything of that sort you don&#8217;t control, if Overloaded. In a normal 2 man game, or a free-for-all, that means it hits your opponents&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,207,20,85],"tags":[808,782,781,809,810],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-control-controller","category-keywords","category-multiplayer","tag-blustersquall","tag-cyclonic-rift","tag-mizzium-mortars","tag-mizzium-skin","tag-teleportal","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}